- Tanzania to receive 100 megawatts of power from Ethiopia via Kenya.
- Agreement involves Kenya as a middleman for power export.
- Power to be delivered from Ethiopia to Tanzania via high-voltage lines through Kenya.
Tanzania is set to begin receiving 100 megawatts of power from Ethiopia if a three-way agreement between the two nations and Kenya is reached.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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Kenya is intended to act as a middleman between Ethiopia and Tanzania for the export of power after they have reached an agreement.
The deal stipulates that Ethiopia will deliver 100 megawatts of power to Tanzania via Kenya.
According to Moges Mekonnen, a spokeswoman for state utility Ethiopian Electric electricity, the quantity of power to be traded might change during final agreements.
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According to John Mativo, CEO of Kenya Electricity Transmission Co., an agreement between Kenya and Tanzania has been reached and is pending regulatory clearance.
The deal allows Tanzania to use high-voltage lines to transport power across Kenya, as seen in a report by Bloomberg.
He indicated that electricity generated in Sodo, southern Ethiopia, will be delivered to Suswa, Kenya, and then to Arusha, northern Tanzania.
Tanzania has one of the biggest populations in Africa without access to power, according to statistics from an energy progress report released in June.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, the International Energy Agency (IEA), and other partners collaborated to produce the research, which revealed that 36 million people in the nation do not have access to electricity.
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Of the top 10 African countries with the largest population lacking electricity, it ranked number four coming in behind Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.
However, as per the Bloomberg report, Ethiopia has constructed at least four large-scale dams, most notably the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which has been a bone of contention between the country and Egypt, to generate electricity for its emerging industrial industry and export to neighboring countries.
Kenya started importing 200 megawatts of electricity from Ethiopia in 2022.
